单词 | morselling |
释义 | morsellingn. rare. The action or process of dividing into pieces or small parts; allocating, apportioning. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > in small quantities morselling1838 peddling out1898 1838 tr. V. Considerant in New Moral World 29 Dec. 156/2 Domestic labours that absorb in the morselling management [Fr. ménages morcelés], all the time and care of women. 1844 M. Hennell Social Syst. 188 Civilization and all historic periods known, have their narrow foundation on family management, or morselling. 1966 Speculum 41 327 This period [sc. the late thirteenth cent.] also witnessed the morselling of fiefs and an impoverishment of the nobility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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